Blog Posts tagged ‘Kanzi’

The Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary, formerly Great Ape Trust, has delivered on its promise to resume public tours this year.
The most recent full round of public tours were in 2009.
The visits run about an hour and a half and are available only through online reservations. The center in southeast Des ...

Former caretakers at Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary tonight detailed their accusations that suspended director and bonobo researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a danger to the seven apes and workers at the sanctuary near Easter Lake.
In a statement backed up by emails among trust board members and the ex-staffers, a dozen ...

The Bonobo Hope Great Ape Sanctuary of Des Moines has met today’s $50,000 fundraising deadline, averting an immediate shutdown, although the facility’s long-term future remains in question.
“If we did not raise that money, then we would have no option. We would be relocating and making those plans today,” said Great ...

As part of a profile I’m writing about Great Ape Trust scientist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, to appear Sunday, I contacted Peter Gabriel, the famed rocker and co-founder of the band Genesis.
I had interviewed Gabriel before about a jam session he held in Atlanta a decade ago, with bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha. ...

Des Moines’ bonobo population gets a second stint on Anderson Cooper 360 this week. This time, the CNN anchor/reporter/personality/amateur swimmer/bunny suit wearer will report about language research and related studies at Great Ape Trust, a southeast Des Moines research center.
For viewing times and more details, go here.
During his recent ...

Fresh from an appearance on Oprah a week ago, Des Moines’ celebrity ape, Kanzi, will meet this week with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Cooper, who hosts a weeknight prime-time news program called AC 360, will videotape Kanzi and other bonobos at the Great Ape Trust.
Kanzi is the trust’s most visible resident. He ...

Kanzi, a bonobo at Des Moines-based Great Ape Trust who is remarkably adept at communicating with symbols and understands some spoken English, appears on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Monday.
Here’s the trust’s announcement:
Kanzi and Great Ape Trust’s bonobo research featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show
Des Moines, Iowa – October 1, 2010 ...

Kanzi, the Great Ape Trust’s celebrity bonobo, is the centerpiece in a Time Magazine article titled “Inside the Minds of Animals.”
The article appears in the Aug. 16 print editon of the magazine and is available online by clicking here.
An article with the same title appeared in National Geographic Magazine in ...